LARAVEL REQUEST SOAP WEBSERVICES

Hi @taona

I've not really worked with SOAP in Laravel, so not sure if it has any inbuilt helpers, but you can always fallback to just using the php SoapClient library directly.

Or there are some packages that are wrappers around this that you could pull in: https://packagist.org/?query=laravel%20soap

Php works perfectly well with soap, especially if the service has a wsdl file available

thanks a lot @alanholmes, say l need to use SoapClient, can l just use it in Laravel directly to write the php needed. Is it possible or it will distort some designs.

thanks @snapey , does that mean l can use that native php syntax to work with SOAP right there in a laravel application.

Yes, use the native SOAP functions. You just need to decide where to put them.

    /**
     * Construct a new instance. Calls the soap service and creates an endpoint, gets methods
     * @param App\System $system system model with the various URL and passwords
     */
    public function __construct($system)
    {
        $this->system = $system;

        $this->options = array(
            'soap_version' => SOAP_1_1,
            'exceptions' => true,
            'trace' => 1,
            'cache_wsdl' => WSDL_CACHE_MEMORY,
            'login' => $system['webuser'],
            'password' => $system['webpass'],
            'connection_timeout' => 25,
            'style' => SOAP_RPC,
            'use' => SOAP_ENCODED,
        );

        $this->client = new \SoapClient($this->system['url'] . '?WSDL', $this->options);

    }

The above creates a new soap connection to an endpoint that is passed as an array ($system) - URL and password.

You can then call functions on the $client;

    public function provider($method, $query)
    {

        try {
            $response = $this->client->$method($query);
        } catch (\Exception $e) {

            Log::error('Soap Exception: ' . $e->getMessage());
            throw new \Exception('Problem with SOAP call');
        }
        return $response;
    }

    public function getRecentPlannedConsignments($hours = 1)
    {
        $query = ['hoursToLookBack'=>$hours];

        return $this->provider('GetRecentPlannedConsignments', $query);

    }

In my code I can call functions like getRecentPlannedConsignments() (there are many more)

This calls a function that wraps the soap client call in a try-catch block.

thanks a lot @snapey, let me try that

Hi @taona ,

if you like to have the same experience like Http facade with SOAP i can advise you my package: https://github.com/CodeDredd/laravel-soap . I tried to make SOAP easy as HTTP and most important testable.